If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.